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Cult places and cultural change in Republican Italy : a contextual approach t…
This scholarly study throws a new light on the Roman impact on religious structures in Republican Italy. In the last four centuries BC, Italy went through immense changes. The Apennine and Adriatic areas were originally inhabited by various 'Italic' tribes and characterised by a specific non-urban societal organisation, in which cult places had a pivotal function. From the fourth century BC onw…
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- 9789089641779
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- X. 263 p.
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- 939.01 STE c
Delusions in context
This open access book offers an exploration of delusions—unusual beliefs that can significantly disrupt people’s lives. Experts from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, including lived experience, clinical psychiatry, philosophy, clinical psychology, and cognitive neuroscience, discuss how delusions emerge, why it is so difficult to give them up, what their effects are, how they are manage…
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- 9783319972022
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- xi, 121p. : ill.
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- 616.89 DEL d
Critical perspectives on interreligious education: experiments in empathy
In Experiments in Empathy: Critical Reflections on Interreligious Education, the contributors provide a roadmap for practicing and developing innovative ways to teach religion that promotes interfaith understanding and cooperation. Readership: All interested in interreligious education, interfaith movement, comparative theologies, religious education, religion and politics will find Experiments…
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- 9789004420045
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- vii, 252p.
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- Currents of encounter, vol.63
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- 207.5 SYE c
Lived religion in the ancient Mediterranean world
The Lived Ancient Religion project has radically changed perspectives on ancient religions and their supposedly personal or public character. This volume applies and further develops these methodological tools, new perspectives and new questions. The religious transformations of the Roman Imperial period appear in new light and more nuances by comparative confrontation and the integration of ma…
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- 9783110557596
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- VIII, 597 p.
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- 299 LIV l
Mythic discourses
"Mythic discourses in the present day show how vernacular heritage continues to function and be valuable through emergent interpretations and revaluations. At the same time, continuities in mythic images, motifs, myths and genres reveal the longue durée of mythologies and their transformations. The eighteen articles of Mythic Discourses address the many facets of myth in Uralic cultures, from …
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- 9789522227638
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- 320 p.; 22 cm.
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- Studia Fennica Folkloristica
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- 301 MYT m
Leading in a VUCA world : integrating leadership, discernment and spirituality
This open access book brings together works by specialists from different disciplines and continents to reflect on the nexus between leadership, spirituality and discernment, particularly with regard to a world that is increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA). The book spells out, first of all, what our VUCA world entails, and how it affects businesses, organizations, and…
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- 9783319988849
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- xvi, 207p. : ill.
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- 658.4092 LEA l
Cultural Crossroads in the Middle East
The region of the Middle East has been called the cradle of mankind. This volume studies historical, cultural, religious, social and political legacies, which play a central role in obstructing intercultural dialogue in the Middle East. The region became home to numerous cultures, religions and ethnicities with long experience of living together in a multicultural environment and has an immense…
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- 9789949031764
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- 349 p.
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- Studia Orientalia Tartuensia. Series Nova
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- 200 CUL c
Indigenous cultures and sustainable development in Latin America
This open access book outlines development theory and practice overtime as well as critically interrogates the “cultural turn” in development policy in Latin American indigenous communities, specifically, in Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador, and Bolivia. It becomes apparent that culturally sustainable development is both a new and old idea, which is simultaneously traditional and modern, and th…
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- 9783030370237
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- ix, 253p. : ill.
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- 306.098 MAC i
The mythology in our language
In 1931 Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote his famous Remarks on Frazer’s “Golden Bough.". At that time, anthropology and philosophy were in close contact—continental thinkers drew heavily on anthropology’s theoretical terms, like mana, taboo, and potlatch, in order to help them explore the limits of human belief and imagination. Now the book receives its first translation by an anthropologist, …
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- 9780990505068
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- IX, 250 p.
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- 201.3 WIT m
Hindu Pluralism: Religion and the Public Sphere in Early Modern South India
In Hindu Pluralism, Elaine M. Fisher complicates the traditional scholarly narrative of the unification of Hinduism. By calling into question the colonial categories implicit in the term “sectarianism,” Fisher’s work excavates the pluralistic textures of precolonial Hinduism in the centuries prior to British intervention. Drawing on previously unpublished sources in Sanskrit, Tamil, and T…
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- 9780520966291
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- XI, 300 p.
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- 294.509548 FIS h
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